package libqtgui4 4.5.0-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.5.0')

[Sudarshan]

This happened while updating the package. Could it be because of excessive strain on RAM or the memory where the packages would be cached

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.5.0')
Package: libqtgui4 4.5.0-0ubuntu4
SourcePackage: qt4-x11
Title: package libqtgui4 4.5.0-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.5.0')
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Yeah, errors like this suggest problems such as corrupted packages (corrupted during download or something). Unfortunately there's really nothing we can do on our end to fix this.

[Sudarshan (sudarshan-gorur)]

Please see the latest comment by 'Sudarshan'. If, it is not possible to reinstall automatically, the bug can be made invalid

[Sudarshan (sudarshan-gorur)]

Once the packages are broken (because of whatever reason), I think on trying to reinstall them should delete the broken package(s) and try to reinstall. This does not happen. So I will have to remove then through synaptic package manager/ manually. Can the reinstallation be made automatic?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Shunting this down to synaptic, in case they would like to handle this failure case better.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. This kind of failure is likely due to a corrupted archive, hard drive failure, memory corruption, no space left, ... and need to be handled manually. Closing the report.